DCAT Meeting June 2025

What is DCAT?

The DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) represents the interests of repository managers and administrators across the globe and, indirectly, DSpace end users. DCAT is a permanent DSpace Working Group sponsored by the DSpace Steering Group that advises DSpace Program governance groups. We welcome feedback and participation from anyone in the community.

Date & Time

• Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 12:00 Eastern Time
• See the world clock to determine the meeting time for your location.
• Meeting length: one hour

Join information:

We will be using the DCAT Chair's Zoom Room for our meeting.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/81605358751 (Meeting ID: 816 0535 8751 Passcode: dspace)

Additional ways to join: DCAT Chair Zoom Room

Agenda:

• Announcements
  • DCAT Meetup at Open Repositories 2025: Sunday at 6 pm?
    • Sarah, Julia, Federico, Carl, Kimberly, Erin, Anne, Vanesa, Jere, Philip, Peter
    • Anyone else?
  • OR 2025: Who is presenting? DSpace Presentations at OR2025 links
    • Federico Verlicchi - several 4Science presentations
    • Colin Lukens, Andrea - DSpace qualitative feedback service ("DASH Stories")
    • Sarah Barsness and Erik Moore - Possibilities for Accessible Repositories: a Case Study in ADA Title II Implementation
    • Kent Gerber - Presenting poster on harvesting READMEs and extracting ORCIDs from those Readmes at poster session
    • Peter Sutton-Long - Using DSpace to support Diamond Open Access
    • Holger Lenz presenting with Tim Donoghue:
      •  workshop on DSpace 9.0, new features, how to upgrade, merger with DSpace-CRIS, roadmap to DSpace 10.x
      • Also condensed version as presentation
    • Julia Gilmore - Building a Digital Preservation Service Model for Canadian Institutional Repositories Through Community Engagement
• Working Group Updates
  
  
• Lunch and Learn - continued discussion of Workflows and Groups
  • Workflows use cases and functions
  • Groups use cases and functions
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1woPmGYUiD1kpDWhRzGKfrcm_xhY1XdTjzw8ywXrawj8/edit?usp=sharing

Notes:

Call Attendees

Emily Crawford, State Library of MA

Jon Crossno, UTSW

Vanessa Evers

Paul Gatavu, University of Burundi

Kent Gerber , University of Minnesota

Keith Gilbertson , Virginia Tech

Julia Gilmore , University of Toronto/Scholars Portal

Erin Jerome 

Holger Lenz , DSpace Program Coordinator

Jack Leong

Colin Lukens 

Jere Odell 

Marianne Reed, University of Kansas Libraries

Carolyn Sullivan , Université d'Ottawa

Peter Sutton-Long , Repository Manager, University of Cambridge

Fede Federico Verlicchi , 4Science

Colin Lukens Harvard Library

Karl Wirth

Philip Young , Virginia Tech

Marcella Huggard , Lyrasis

Anne Shelley Iowa State University

Regrets

Iryna Kuchma EIFL